I am so excited to post these pictures from our visit with Brandon Sanderson. Brandon is an Associate Professor at UNC Pembroke, and was the FIRST artist coming to WVU under the new “WVU Master Printmaking Series in honor of Joe Hestick” funded by Beth Hestick. While at WVU, Brandon worked and worked our students! The shop was buzzing with activity for three days, it was great!
During his visit, Brandon created a 66 print edition of a 10-11 color litho/silkscreen with students, printed some intaglio prints, proofed some laser cut imagery, gave a public lecture and gave critiques to students.
Day two starts the same as day one…Back at it first thing in the morning…Kyle and Tyler printing the next layer…
Brandon explaining his color choices to Stephanie and BFA Printmaker Lindsay Toney…
Maybe 6-8 colors in at this point???
While all this was going on, MFA Printmaker Feliks Pyron was busy printing Intaglio plates…
Feliks printed two editions of these exquisite etchings…
At 2pm it was time for Brandon’s talk…he brought about 1,000 prints to show and covered the shop! So much to see, it was really great!
Some of Brandon’s work he brought with him from North Carolina…
Brandon talking about his work with some of our patrons…
Students listening to Brandon’s heart felt talk in our Lithography Shop…
After his talk, we moved back into the main printshop to hear Brandon talk about some of his other pieces and the current edition being printed…
Brandon brought these gigantic black and woodcuts that were just beautiful! Seen behind him above…
Small reception after the talk…
What an AWESOME DAY today! So much fun, so much energy, it was really great!
Joseph Lupo 
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